Built in 1608, the Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte is a 142-step staircase in Caltagirone, Sicily made from thousands of ceramic tiles, one design per step, as a fitting tribute to a city known for its design and production of ceramics and terra-cotta sculptures. For centuries the stairs have bee...

Buildings are a big environmental headache. They account for nearly half of the world's climate changing emissions. But things may be different in the years ahead, as VOA's Rosanne Skirble discovered in a laboratory on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Vienna was an intellectual powerhouse in the early 20th Century and two male artists are considered the giants of Viennese modernism: Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. But Vienna's Belvedere Museum is now showcasing the long-neglected contribution of women artists in that period. City of Women displays...

Assi and his husband got married in Barcelona, afraid of homophobic extended family members.

He said his dad was still suspicious of their relationship up until the wedding. ‘Something in him changed that day,’ he said. ‘He saw what he couldn’t see before. He felt the love that he had never felt

The Day of Dead is a mexican celebration for the dead that coincides with Halloween and its also celebrated in several places in Latin America. It was originally from Spain and is a day devoted to celebrate and enjoy the life we had with people who have died. Calaberas (skulls) are made out of can...

So far, Alboran’s La Cu4rta Hoja Tour has only announced dates in Spain, but hopefully new international stops will be added soon. Regardless, many of his more than 6 million followers were quick to comment by asking Alborán to add their hometowns to his tour. Even if he doesn’t visit your hood in

The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok , Russia , just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the c...

For the 20th Anniversary of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao the museum was lit up with an incredible light display telling the story of Bilbao and the Guggenheim. This marks a successful 20 years for the City as the museum reinvented the City as cultural centre.

Un año que nunca olvidaremos merece un final inolvidable, como esta espectacular iniciativa de Fundación "la Caixa": El Aleluya de G.F.Händel interpretada como nunca antes. Más de 350 voces unidas, virtualmente, en un gran canto al optimismo. ¡Disfrútalo! (Grabado en la Basílica Santa María del Mar

LOVE this! Joyful, happy music that lifts my soul. It's very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing.